Stick to the list

Author(s)

Cindy Argiento

Document Type

Blog

Publication Date

9-7-2017

Abstract

The cashier asked, "Did you get everything you needed?" "Everything and more," I replied. Just once I should go to a store and buy only what's on the list. Once while shopping I found someone else's list. When I read it, I became intrigued by several items and wound up buying things that were strange to me from a stranger's list. I'm convinced it was the store's marketing strategy to leave a random list for an unsuspecting customer like myself to find, causing impulse purchases and increased store profits. Shrewd!

Keywords

Erma Bombeck, humor writing, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, University of Dayton

eCommons Citation

Argiento, Cindy, "Stick to the list" (2017). Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog. 1501.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ebww_blog/1501